{"id":121,"date":"2015-02-19T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/02\/19\/lege-trend-vehicle-user-fees-from-california-to-texas\/"},"modified":"2015-02-19T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T19:07:00","slug":"lege-trend-vehicle-user-fees-from-california-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-vehicle-user-fees-from-california-to-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend: Vehicle User Fees from California to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=SB579\">SB 579 (Watson) <\/a>&amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=HB1432\">HB 1432<\/a> (Howard) would permit a $10 Travis County registration fee to fund Travis County transportation funding, or permit a $20 fee with voter approval.<\/p>\n<p>The added\u00a0transportation funds would go to the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, would be utilized for transportation bond packages, which may include tollroads.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other counties have been granted the similar registration fee surcharges, including\u00a0Cameron, Hidalgo, Webb, El Paso and Bexar. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/news\/news\/local-govt-politics\/legislation-would-allow-travis-car-registration-fe\/nkDpp\/#d197d2ec.3436714.735648\">Statesman\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Refreshing Recollection: Vehicle User fees are proposed as a state wide solution in California, in combination with local sales tax increases dedicated for transportation. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/?post=lee-trend-more-transportation-funds-without-raising-the-gas-tax\">Information Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=SB579\">SB 579 (Watson) <\/a>&amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=HB1432\">HB 1432<\/a> (Howard) would permit a $10 Travis County registration fee to fund Travis County transportation funding, or permit a $20 fee with voter approval.<\/p>\n<p>The added\u00a0transportation funds would go to the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, would be utilized for trans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}